Re: couple of questions about the NM TODO

["John Eckhart" <jweckhart gmail com>]

On 1/4/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:36 -0500, Bryan Clark wrote:

> this in the works?  For me this problem only really occurs in what I
> call the "conference scenario".  Where you're at a conference and
> looking for the wireless, possibly trying a few different connections
> that don't work until you find one that does.  However next time you're
> up and running NM continues to try all the other connections if it
> doesn't see the last one that worked.  Since I haven't been to a
> conference in a while this isn't much of an issue for me anymore, but
> was something I wanted to think about fixing.

By this, you mean that you can successfully connect to a network (ie get
an IP address) but that you need to either pay $$$$ or log in or
something?  That case we don't handle so well right now.  Perhaps we
should "forget" save details of an unknown network that you were only
connected to for less than 3 minutes or something.  Ideas?

I travel a lot and typically connect to airport WAN's and/or customer site WAN's; however, these are typically one-time only or temporary connections that I plan on using only for a few hours. It would be great if NM had the ability to remove these old connections since I don't typically use those WAN's again and if I did I would rather re-establish the connection when I got there. Maybe have a way to mark a connection as temporary (
i.e. don't remember beyond this session or timeout after X hours) or a way to remove stale sessions via the GUI-app?

Thanks,
John